Genealogy Studies Program

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Fight Crime with Genetic Genealogy

As an evidence-driven enthusiast, you may have an interest in police procedural television series. Whether it is the adrenaline rush you get from solving the crime before the police, or the chance to use your problem-solving ability, it is easy to get drawn in by the storylines. And while becoming a law enforcement officer might …

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A Reflection on Race: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

Does “race” exist? According to geneticist Adam Rutherford, author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes, geneticists are only beginning to discover how closely interrelated we all are. In an interview last month with Kara Miller of Innovation Hub, Rutherford discussed a recent study that found the …

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Revisiting Your Past Genealogy Mysteries

Most of us have research that is ten or twenty years old! We stopped because the answer just wasn’t within our grasp and the answer to “where do I look next?” wasn’t obvious. Maybe it is time to look again. Not only are there countless online databases that (for a fee) provide amazing arrays of …

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What’s New Is Old

After explosive growth the last five years, genealogical databases have settled in and now derive their best returns from developing their collections. One of the key sources that meet many tricky chronology tests of the Genealogical Proof Standard is the newspaper article that nails the date, year, or place of an event. Faced with a …

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Genealogy Conferences – An Overview

Every season has its compelling conferences—from Winter’s RootsTech in Salt Lake City, to Spring’s National Genealogical Society, and Summer’s Federation of Genealogical Societies conferences in various cities, and Fall’s New York State Family History Conference in Syracuse, N.Y. Choosing which ones to attend will probably have more to do with location than anything else since …

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